STS NL 2026: STS NL CONFERENCE 2026
PROGRAM

Days: Tuesday, April 14th Wednesday, April 15th Thursday, April 16th Friday, April 17th

Tuesday, April 14th

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Wednesday, April 15th

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09:00-10:00 Registration and Coffee

Registration and Coffee

Location: Atrium Ravelijn
10:45-12:15 Session 7A: T18: Revisiting the Hydrogen Utopia: Failures, Reorientations, and Emerging Visions
Location: Ravelijn 4231
10:45
“The only salvation” or a fragmented future? Islands of Prosperity and Abandonment in Finland’s Hydrogen Utopia (abstract)
11:15
The politics of green hydrogen futures at the end of the world: toward more plural modes of energy anticipation. (abstract)
11:45
Advancing scenario planning methodology as a technology of humility in hydrogen transitions (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 7B: T11: Rural-Urban Knowledge Infrastructures for Transformation
Location: Ravelijn 4237
10:45
An inquiry into seed commons: anticipating, dissenting, and caring practices (abstract)
11:15
Cultivating rural experiences in the city farms of London (abstract)
11:45
Swamp Imaginaries: Cooking and Foraging as Emergent Knowledge Infrastructures (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 7C: T4: Scopes and Scapes of Science
Location: Ravelijn 3231
10:45
“Did you know that Open Science is a legal obligation under Horizon Europe?”: Taking a closer look at the European Commission’s approach to implementing their notions of openness across European research communities. (abstract)
11:15
Responsible Research in Security & Privacy: Negotiating Scientific Practices, Regulations, and Institutional Norms (abstract)
11:45
Diagnostic replication: What happens if this epistemic tool is put into action across disciplines? (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 7D: OT: Reflecting Transformations
Location: Ravelijn 3237
10:45
Towards an integrated model of technology hypes (abstract)
11:15
Long-term transformation through governance friction – the case of waste management (abstract)
11:45
From life phase to risk factor: menopause and hormone therapy in the Netherlands, 1950-1990 (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 7E: T22: Unpacking Entanglements between Science and New Forms of Geopolitics
Location: Ravelijn 2231
10:45
Unpacking Performances of Science Politicisation (abstract)
11:07
Varieties of Science: SDG knowledge production in different institutional contexts (abstract)
11:29
Infrastructures of Crisis: Urban Technoscience, Geopolitics, and the Spatial Politics of Global Justice (abstract)
11:51
Towards responsible futures: unpacking the role of raw materials geopolitics in the design of emerging energy technologies (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 7F: T2: Governance in the Making: Governance, Knowledge and Technoscience
Location: Ravelijn 2237
10:45
Decentralised energy management in local neighbourhoods - Reconfiguration of power relations and actor constellations through socio-technical-scripts (abstract)
11:07
Gen Z Protests: Effects of rapid protest organization on democracy (abstract)
11:29
Standards, Certifications and Technoscience in Greek Agrifood Systems (abstract)
11:51
The power to transform? Mapping transformative power in EU research projects and policy contexts (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 7G: T5: Deep Learning and Culture
Chair:
Location: Carré 3B
10:45
Absent Voices, Confident Answers: Representation of Long-Tail Biographies and Marginalized Cultures in LLMs Through Log Probabilities and Reasoning Patterns (abstract)
11:15
‘Culture’ Meets its Match: The High-Dimensional Semantic Transductions of Multimodal LLMs (abstract)
11:45
Beyond Words: The Metaphorical Work of AI Memes (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 7H: OT: Imagination and Design
Location: Carré 3A
10:45
Co-Designing Sustainability on Board: A Mixed-Method Approach for the Development of Novel Cruise Ship Cabins (abstract)
11:15
Panic Buttons in the Smart Safe City: Public Imaginaries of Urban Safety (abstract)
11:45
Ageing on Platforms: Experiences of Older TikTokers (abstract)
12:15-13:15Lunch Break & Poster Session
13:15-14:45 Session 8A: T18: Revisiting the Hydrogen Utopia: Failures, Reorientations, and Emerging Visions
Location: Ravelijn 4231
13:15
Pursuing just hydrogen futures? How directionality is shaped through research practices (abstract)
13:45
Imagining a Hydrogen Economy: The Technopolitics of the EU Hydrogen Strategy (abstract)
14:15
Hydrogen hype, decarbonization, and EU industrial policy: An analysis of ‘green steel’ (abstract)
13:15-14:45 Session 8C: T6: Research Cultures in Transition Roundtable
Location: Ravelijn 3231
13:15
Fifteen Years of Critical Reflection: STS, Research Culture, and the Looping Effects of (Studying and Enacting) Reform (abstract)
13:15-14:45 Session 8E: OT: Critical Reflections on Research I
Location: Ravelijn 2231
13:15
Bridging Worlds not Blurring Lines: Sustaining Critical Capacity in Transdisciplinary Research (abstract)
13:45
Chinese scientific journals on WeChat: Content Framing, Identity Representation, and User Engagement (abstract)
14:15
The sand in the gears of large-scale interdisciplinary research: Uncovering bottom-up rearrangements of university infrastructure (abstract)
13:15-14:45 Session 8F: T2: Governance in the Making: Governance, Knowledge and Technoscience
Location: Ravelijn 2237
13:15
Blood and Data Flows: Private Menstrual Cycle Tracking Technologies and the Production of Academic Knowledge about Women’s Health (abstract)
13:45
Beyond Collaboration: Navigating and Anticipating Institutional Logics and Power Dynamics in Hospital Algorithm Development (abstract)
14:15
Social pharmaceutical innovation as innovation power in the making (abstract)
13:15-14:45 Session 8G: T5: Deep Learning and Culture
Location: Carré 3B
13:15
Cultural Boundaries in Latent Space: Iterative Image Prompting as Method and Meaning-Making (abstract)
13:45
From Ranking to Citing? Interrogating the epistemic culture of RAG-based search (abstract)
14:15
Boundary-Work by Artificial Intelligence: How Large-Language Models Govern Sensitive Public Discourse Across User Personas (abstract)
13:15-14:45 Session 8H: T29: Normative Sense-Making about Artificial Intelligence Technologies
Location: Carré 3A
13:15
Doing normativities at the intersection of AI, energy, and sustainability: an STS perspective (abstract)
13:45
The conceptual pillars of AI governance. The role of conceptual engineering in the legal and ethical governance of AI (abstract)
14:15
From Sacred Doctrine to Algorithmic Authority: Epistemic Power and AI in Times of Global Sociotechnical Shifts (abstract)
14:45-15:00Coffee Break
15:00-16:30 Session 9A: T18: Revisiting the Hydrogen Utopia: Failures, Reorientations, and Emerging Visions
Location: Ravelijn 4231
15:00
Captive futures: why solar hydrogen struggles to escape fossil paradigms (abstract)
15:22
Fostering South-South ties ‘from below’ in hydrogen: Insights from a cross-regional encounter between Africa and Latin America (abstract)
15:44
Surviving the Early Hydrogen Economy: Diversification, Hype, and Reorientation in Chinese Hydrogen Start-ups (abstract)
16:06
Sustaining the Promise: Reframing Narratives Around Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 9B: T13: Strenghtening the Soil Humanities: Cultivating (Re)generative Power
Location: Ravelijn 4237
15:00
Rooted in Soil: a relational approach to spatial planning and design with soil (abstract)
15:30
More-than-human Actor Mapping: Integrating Actor-Network Theory and Critical Systems Heuristics to Reframe Actor Dynamics in Nature-Based Solutions (abstract)
16:00
The Cosmopolitics of Soil Resourcefulness: The Constitution and Contestation of Terrestrial and Agrarian orders (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 9C: T7: Making Science Better?
Location: Ravelijn 3231
15:00
Open Science as Confused: Contradictory and Conflicting Discourses in Open Science Guidance to Researchers (abstract)
15:30
PubPeer Perceptions: how authors view their own papers and those they cite in the light of PubPeer comments (abstract)
16:00
Clouded by systemic ignorance: unsettled state of knowledge about spherical nucleic acids (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 9D: T9: Rethinking Classifications: Exploring Approaches to (not) Categorize People in Data-intensive Healthcare and Research
Location: Ravelijn 3237
15:00
Rethinking classifications through layers of vulnerability. (abstract)
15:22
From ‘you’re normal’ to ‘your normal’ : how menstrual tracking technologies and large-scale menstrual datasets challenge, reframe – and reinforce– gynecological categorizations ? (abstract)
15:44
Temporal Experiments and The Chronopolitics of Life's Endings in a Next-Generation Hospital EPR (abstract)
16:06
Technosolutionism, (strategic) essentialism, and (self-)surveillance in women's health (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 9E: OT: Critical Reflections on Research II
Location: Ravelijn 2231
15:00
The myth of neutrality: Justice in environmental assessment (abstract)
15:30
Assessing research(er) quality with disrupted judgement device: the case of narrative-style CV in Dutch research funding (abstract)
16:00
Naïve scientism as vulnerability to scientific misinformation (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 9F: T12: Implicit Infrastructures in Healthcare‘s Crisis and Disaster Preparedness
Location: Ravelijn 2237
15:00
Making School Testing a Problem: Problematization, Preparedness, and Covid-19 Test Regimes in Austria’s Education System (abstract)
15:30
Whose knowledge counts in a crisis? Expertise, Governance, and Healthcare Decision Making after COVID 19 (abstract)
16:00
Implicit advisory infrastructures in pandemic preparedness: temporality, expertise, and epistemic hierarchies (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 9G: T14: Evaluating Existential Threats, from Climate Change to AI and Gene Editing: STS Perspectives
Location: Carré 3B
15:00
Mapping the "End of the World": An Institutional Landscape of Existential Risk Research (abstract)
15:30
Evaluating Biodiversity Loss as an Existential Threat Between the Sciences and Humanities: Techno-solutions and underlying issues (abstract)
16:00
AI Beyond Human Controllability? Unpacking the Tacit Assumptions and Rhetorical Foundations of AI Existential Risk (X-risk) Narratives & Their Assessment Across Different Scientific Disciplines (abstract)
15:00-16:30 Session 9H: T29: Normative Sense-Making about Artificial Intelligence Technologies
Location: Carré 3A
15:00
A typology of AI narratives and their normative implications on AI literacy (abstract)
15:30
Disputing Definitions of Artificial Intelligence: Discursive Dynamics in Brazilian Public Hearings on AI Regulation (abstract)
16:00
From Old Regimes to AI: Digital Technologies and the End of Business-as-Usual in International Law (abstract)
16:30-17:00Coffee Break
Thursday, April 16th

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09:00-10:30 Session 11A: T24: Making Futures Tangible? Sociomaterial Practices of Prediction
Location: Ravelijn 4231
09:00
Model realities: a case study on model use and governance in Dutch water management (abstract)
09:30
The Making of Neuro-Futures – BCI-figurations in Science-Fiction film (abstract)
10:00
Knitting Work of Prediction: The Praxeological Grounds of Forecasting (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 11C: T10: Resisting Rent-Seeking: Nonprofit Platforms and the Politics of Open Science in Scholarly Communication and Evaluation
Location: Ravelijn 3231
09:00
Why is change in scholarly communication so hard to imagine? Findings from a stakeholder consultation for the cOAlition S proposal ‘Towards Responsible Publishing’ (abstract)
09:30
Advancing Open Research Information: Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Platform Capitalism (abstract)
10:00
Reviving enlightenment values in post-big-tech knowledge infrastructures? (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 11D: T26: What If we talk Politics a Little - More?
Location: Ravelijn 3237
09:00
Democratic futuring: an inquiry in Nederland Verbeeld(t) (abstract)
09:22
Still time for a dress rehearsal? Geopolitical ecologies in a changing world order (abstract)
09:44
The global digipolis and a return to self-preservation: on Simmel, the home and the city (abstract)
10:06
The Machinery of Participation: How the Neighbourhood Approach formats local heat transitions in the Netherlands (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 11E: T15: Health and Care Shifts in Times of AI
Location: Ravelijn 2231
09:00
Awkward Alliances: How Algorithm Developers Navigate Contradictions in Healthcare (abstract)
09:22
Hypothetical enrollment - An anticipatory situated method to assess the implementation of AI diagnostics in clinical settings (abstract)
09:44
Aporetic Intelligence: Puzzlement as Care in AI-Augmented Neurosurgery (abstract)
10:06
Sensing Sepsis: responsibly developing and embedding an AI-assisted diagnostic device (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 11F: T21: Orbiting and Hovering – Critical Remote Sensing and Volumetric Regimes
Location: Ravelijn 2237
09:00
More Accurate, Less Meaningful? Reflexive Remote Sensing (abstract)
09:30
Between remote sensing and yak herding: grassland changes on the Tibetan plateau (abstract)
10:00
Exploring the Limits of Remote Sensing: Transdisciplinarity in Land Conflict Research in Mozambique (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 11G: T32: Histories in Times of Global Shifts
Location: Carré 3B
09:00
Preparing for urban crises: Public shelters as ‘infrastructures of preparedness’ in times of turmoil (abstract)
09:22
Foreground and background relationality: addressing chemical design through technoscience and value regimes (abstract)
09:44
Governing Crisis in Private: Environmental Imaginaries, Sustainable Development, and Alternative Sites of Global Governance since the 1970s (abstract)
10:06
Relational preservation: conceptualising our digital legacy amidst an ecological crisis (abstract)
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Session 12A: T31: Navigating the Digital–Science Nexus: Science and Technology Studies, Emerging Digital Technologies, and the Future of Knowledge
Location: Ravelijn 4231
10:45
The future of genAI in science: a backcasting exercise (abstract)
11:15
The AI-Question in Academia: Exploring the Practices and Perceptions of Researchers using AI-driven Software (abstract)
11:45
Navigating Quantum Infrastructures: An Ecosystem-Level Approach to Responsible Research and Innovation in the Netherlands (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 12C: T7: Making Science Better?
Chair:
Location: Ravelijn 3231
10:45
Who Assesses What? Framing Expertise and Decision-Making in Peer Review (abstract)
11:15
Imagining the Bureaucratic Modularity of Good Science (abstract)
11:45
Research Integrity at Scale: Paper Mills, Screening Tools, and the Reconfiguration of Publishability (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 12D: T6: Changing Research Culture: Impact and Infrastructure
Location: Ravelijn 3237
10:45
The impact agenda. Investigating practices and politics of producing science with impact (abstract)
11:15
Assetisation mechanisms in hybrid professions - Evidence from Project Management (abstract)
11:45
Archives and AI - opportunities and challenges for research data curation in a changing landscape of academic research (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 12E: T15: Health and Care Shifts in Times of AI
Location: Ravelijn 2231
10:45
Is participatory design enough? Methodologies for co-designing inclusive AI-based health technologies for and with people with COPD (abstract)
11:07
Explainable AI visions by older adults and how they co-create AI in care and daily practices (abstract)
11:29
Reflecting on diabetes care through AI: Lessons from Leefmaatje (abstract)
11:51
In between use and non-use: evaluating implementation of digital home-based health screening in the lives of everyday publics (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 12F: T21: Orbiting and Hovering – Critical Remote Sensing and Volumetric Regimes
Location: Ravelijn 2237
10:45
Towards a FAIR-compliant Harmonised AI-based Automatic Metadata for Climate Research (abstract)
11:15
Seeing like a Satellite? The Role of Space-based Valuations in Monitoring GHG Emissions (abstract)
11:45
How the adoption of remote sensing technologies challenges asset management in municipal organisations: a case study of urban bridges and quay walls (abstract)
12:15-13:15 Session 13: Lunch Break & Poster Session
Location: Atrium Ravelijn
Physiological Responses To Feedback In VR: Understanding Sustainable Consumer Behaviour (abstract)
Why “Neutral” Reporting Cannot Secure the Trustworthiness of a Commodified Science (abstract)
Drowning Technology in Ethics: Why EU Grant Structure is Increasingly Prone to Ethics Washing and What to Do About It (abstract)
Critical Dataset Studies: Culture, Labour, and the Making of Deep Learning Systems (abstract)
When Language Produces: Post-Structuralist Risk Analysis of ChatGPT as a World-Making Infrastructure (abstract)
Researcher identity and its definitions (abstract)
AI-Mediated Citizen Participation in China: Where sociotechnical mediation shapes governance logics (abstract)
Governing Open Science in Greece: Politics of Representations, Visions, and Future Aspirations (abstract)
Porous Fences and Elephant Agencies: Rethinking Infrastructure in the Okavango Delta (abstract)
14:45-15:15Coffee Break
15:15-16:45 Session 15A: OT: Approaches to Knowing I
Chair:
Location: Ravelijn 4231
15:15
Enacting Futures Through Valuation: Sociomaterial Practices of Prediction in Public Investment (abstract)
15:45
Identifying future control points in the economy: The startup complexity index (abstract)
16:15
CDA as a theoretical lens for studying contemporary STS related issues: discursive disputes around sustainability (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 15B: T11: Rural-Urban Knowledge Infrastructures for Transformation
Location: Ravelijn 4237
15:15
On amplifying, facilitating and building alliances: democratic infrastructures for transformation (abstract)
15:45
‘Commons-literacies’ for activating rurban futures: Lessons learned on cultivating a new (knowledge) practice for commoning at the rural edges of Amsterdam (abstract)
16:15
Beyond niche innovations and scaling: Transformative change as struggle (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 15C: T7: Making Science Better?
Location: Ravelijn 3231
15:15
Exploring Scientific Bubbles: Lessons from other domains (abstract)
15:45
Editorial Structure and Peer Reviewer Selection: A Comparative Study of PLOS Biology and PLOS ONE (abstract)
16:15
Navigating the science system: research integrity and academic survival strategies (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 15D: T20: Ctrl+Shift+Lab: Living Labs as Value-Based Research Infrastructures for Goal-oriented Change in Times of Global Crises
Location: Ravelijn 3237
15:15
A Transdisciplinary Transformative Cycle (TTC) as a practices-based intervention framework for sustainability transformations (abstract)
15:37
Narrating and Enacting the Campus Living Lab: A Comparative Analysis of Sustainability Imaginary Embeddedness. (abstract)
15:59
Reflexive innovation in Living Labs: Novel knowledge infrastructures in times of global shifts (abstract)
16:21
Value-Based Methodologies for Knowledge and Technological Justice in Living Labs for Human Rights (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 15E: T15: Health and Care Shifts in Times of AI
Location: Ravelijn 2231
15:15
A Case Study of the Development and Implementation of AI in Healthcare, or the Love of Technology (abstract)
15:45
Digital health, AI, and the shifting of (health)care values: Corporate-driven efficiency unquestioned (abstract)
16:15
Care alignment: Holding together care and scale in the development of AI-based health data infrastructures (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 15F: T3: Ethics and Technology in Practice
Location: Ravelijn 2237
15:15
Outsourcing the Ethics of Care: Human-Robot-Healthcare Interaction (abstract)
15:45
Ethical Readiness for AI in Systemic Design Practice: Making Systemic Design Tools Adaptive, Inclusive, and Participatory Infrastructures (abstract)
16:15
Making the invisible visible: A reflection method to help model developers and users uncover justice-related design choices in energy models (abstract)
15:15-16:45 Session 15G: T8: Comparing Theoretical Lenses for Studying Contemporary Science-Society Interactions
Location: Carré 3B
15:15
Braiding repertoires: using repertoire theory to analyze co-production processes between researchers and societal actors (abstract)
15:45
Pursuing better environmental knowledge in practice: Labouring connections and exploring supportive stories and skills (abstract)
16:15
Accounting for in- and exclusions of diverse modes of patient and public involvement in medical research ethics review (abstract)
16:45-17:00Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Session 16A: OT: Approaches to Knowing II
Location: Ravelijn 4231
17:00
Engaging Quantum Futures: Expectations as a Bridge Between Science and Society (abstract)
17:30
Same artwork, different values: how art appraisers navigate uncertainty and information asymmetries in the art market (abstract)
18:00
Quality of science journalism explored in Japan and the Netherlands in times of uncertainty (abstract)
17:00-18:30 Session 16B: OT: Infrastructures of Knowing
Location: Ravelijn 4237
17:00
Gender as an Epistemological Lens in Biodiversity Data Production: Rethinking Open-Air Laboratories (abstract)
17:22
Uncovering hidden assumptions in Digital Twins (abstract)
17:44
From Open Science to Platform Enclosure? Sociotechnical Mechanisms of Closing in Decentralized Science (DeSci) (abstract)
18:06
Participatory and Spatial Approaches within Urban Infrastructuring (abstract)
17:00-18:30 Session 16C: T7: Making Science Better?
Location: Ravelijn 3231
17:00
Co-creating Research Assessment Reform (abstract)
17:30
What makes a conference high quality? (abstract)
18:00
FAIR Data Practices for Qualitative Research in Transdisciplinarity (abstract)
17:00-18:30 Session 16E: T15: Health and Care Shifts in Times of AI
Location: Ravelijn 2231
17:00
Tracing imaginaries of healthcare AI and robotics through public policy, engineering research, and nursing practice (abstract)
17:22
Cultivating narrative literacy: how fictional stories structure sense-making of AI for health and care (abstract)
17:44
“Digitaal als het kan”: Framing Value and Necessity of Digital Innovations in Dutch Mental Healthcare (abstract)
18:06
Scripts-in-the-making: the continues rescriptions of AI assisted digital self-monitoring during technology development process. (abstract)
17:00-18:30 Session 16F: T3: Ethics and Technology in Practice
Location: Ravelijn 2237
17:00
Ethics in and through InSilico Health (abstract)
17:30
Values in Diagnostic Cancer Technologies: Co-constitution, Multiplicity, and Ethical Reflection in PREDI-Lynch (abstract)
18:00
A Practical Dialogue Approach to Emotional-Moral Reflection on Risks and Technologies (abstract)
17:00-18:30 Session 16G: T8: Comparing Theoretical Lenses for Studying Contemporary Science-Society Interactions
Location: Carré 3B
17:00
Testing science through public participation (abstract)
17:30
Assembling the Collective: Rethinking Technocracy Through Latour’s Dingpolitik (abstract)
18:00
Science-society interactions in telescope siting processes (abstract)
17:00-18:30 Session 17: T11: Rural-Urban Knowledge Infrastructures for Transformation (Walkshop 2)

Tetem (Stroinksbleekweg 16, 7523 ZL Enschede)

17:00
Artistic Fringe - Walkshop 2: Storytelling for multispecies governance: the Zoöp model at Tetem (site visit!) (abstract)
Friday, April 17th

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09:00-10:30 Session 18A: T25: When Futures Get Stuck: The “Captivity” of Collective Futuring in Transitions
Location: Ravelijn 4231
09:00
Towards an Integrated Framework for Research on Imagination and Future Orientation in Transition Studies (abstract)
09:30
Nuclear fusion promises in the media: exploring the equilibrium between change and stabilisation of the energy system (abstract)
10:00
Futures in flux: episodes of epistemic reconfiguration in the energy transition (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 18B: T23: Fixing the split of knowledge and its ownership: In search of material and technological decolonisations
Location: Ravelijn 4237
09:00
Sonthanga: Decolonising Cotton Textile Production (abstract)
09:30
Making crop biotechnology African: boundary work, ownership and autonomy in Kenya and Ghana (abstract)
10:00
United States and Latin America in the shifting geopolitics of knowledge capitalism (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 18C: T6: Research Cultures: Neglected questions and (non)answerable institutions
Location: Ravelijn 3231
09:00
Evaluating relevance in research assessment: an ethnographic inquiry of academic whiteness (abstract)
09:22
Not Just the Career of One Researcher: Social Safety, Research Culture Reforms and the Politics of Governing Dissent in Dutch Academia (abstract)
09:44
Secret Academia: Hidden Structures, Informal Power, and Academic Misconduct (abstract)
10:06
First-Generation staff and the intersection between academic work, careers and class (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 18D: T19: STS Research into Interdisciplinarity: Studies of Interdisciplinary Practice
Location: Ravelijn 3237
09:00
Strategies to draw interdisciplinary expertise to the center of higher education at the boundary of STS and Digital Humanities (abstract)
09:30
Challenges of Coordinating an Interdisciplinary Consortium: Leibniz Science Campus DiTraRe (abstract)
10:00
Opening the toolbox – investigating formats for interdisciplinary facilitation (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 18E: OT: Approaches to Knowing III
Location: Ravelijn 2231
09:00
Co-creation for a just energy transition? An assessment of the transformative potential of participatory modelling in the heat transition in Utrecht (abstract)
09:30
Redeveloping a climate service by considering contextual sensitivity through an Actor Network Theory-lens – The case of the RuimteScanner-tool (abstract)
09:00-10:30 Session 18F: T3: Ethics and Technology in Practice
Location: Ravelijn 2237
09:00
The Fundaments of an Ethical Parallel track; building blocks for practical ethics in design processes (abstract)
09:30
Ethical Workforms for Design and Designers: Structure and Coherence (abstract)
10:00
Values Taking Shape Workshop (abstract)
10:30-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 Session 19A: T25: When Futures Get Stuck: The “Captivity” of Collective Futuring in Transitions
Location: Ravelijn 4231
10:45
The Future of Sustainability, Nutrition and Food Safety in European Circular Food Systems (abstract)
11:15
Imagining Carbon Futures: A Comparative Analysis of Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Industrial Carbon Management Technologies in Germany (abstract)
11:45
Restart after Stalling? Future Imaginaries and Re-Combination in Sociotechnical Transitions (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 19B: T27: Act Now! On Obstructing, Envisioning and Enacting Radical Change for Just and Liveable Futures: Obstructing & Envisioning
Location: Ravelijn 4237
10:45
Academic research as vehicle for obstructive fossil solutionism and transformative change (abstract)
11:15
Lessons from the past: being a woman, an activist and a scientist in the second half of the 20th century. (abstract)
11:45
Foregrounding relations for action (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 19C: T6: From productivity to care: researchers' perspectives on sustainable research cultures
Location: Ravelijn 3231
10:45
Dis/abling academia? Research culture between pressure to perform, barriers and opportunities in Germany (abstract)
11:15
Letters from the In-Between: On Being and Becoming Transformative Researchers (abstract)
11:45
Caught in the Fray. How climate scientists navigate the public sphere (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 19D: T19: STS Research into Interdisciplinarity: Reflections on and Analyses of Interdisciplinarity as a Concept
Location: Ravelijn 3237
10:45
Living in Complexity: Disciplinary Identities and Knowledge Integration at the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) (abstract)
11:15
One researcher, multiple disciplines: perils and payoffs of navigating solo across epistemologies through the concept of experience (abstract)
11:45
The Conceptual Co-Evolution of Interdisciplinarity and Integration (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 19E: T17: Digitilisation for Equity?
Location: Ravelijn 2231
10:45
Digital health as a Matter of Care (abstract)
11:07
Humanitarian VR as a Matter of Care: Plurifying Digital Humanitarianism through STS (abstract)
11:29
Between digital efficiency and care: Everyday negotiations of equity in community transport (abstract)
11:51
The Translation Wars of Bias: Discursive Negotiation and Power Struggles among Government, Industry, and Civil Society in SIS II (abstract)
10:45-12:15 Session 19F: T3: Ethics and Technology in Practice
Location: Ravelijn 2237
10:45
Visualising AI Perceptions for Ethical Reflection in the Dutch Public Sector (abstract)
11:07
Scientific practices for the transformation of unjust realities (abstract)
11:29
Should Ethics be Agile? (abstract)
11:51
Fostering responsibility in data sharing practices? (abstract)
12:15-13:15Lunch Break (Atrium) & WTMC Member Meeting (RA1501)
13:15-14:45 Session 20A: T25: When Futures Get Stuck: The “Captivity” of Collective Futuring in Transitions
Location: Ravelijn 4231
13:15
Nestedness of collective futures: Scales, Time and Depth of change (abstract)
13:45
Enacting an ecology-based agrifood system in living labs of a sustainability transition programme (abstract)
14:15
Competing Imaginaries in Mission-Oriented Innovation Policies: Power, Justice, and the Politics of Sustainability in the Brazilian Amazon (abstract)
13:15-14:45 Session 20C: OT: Governing Socio-Technical Change
Location: Ravelijn 3231
13:15
The promises and pitfalls of consensus-seeking politics in times of polarisation: Lessons from the Strategic Dialogue on the future of European agriculture (abstract)
13:37
Affected Microbiome: Assembling Caring Relationalities between Humans and Microbes In and Through Microbiome Engineering (abstract)
13:59
Inclusivity and transitions, intertwined or incompatible? (abstract)
14:21
When the World Outgrows our Words: How Socially Disruptive Technologies Reshape Moral Conceptual Frameworks (abstract)
13:15-14:45 Session 20D: T16: When the Public Goes Private: The Entanglement of Financialized Actors in Public Sectors
Location: Ravelijn 3237
13:15
A Vocabulary of Green Justification: Creating New Not New Environmental Truths (abstract)
13:45
A typology of network governance: exploring (not-) for-profit networks of general practices in the Netherlands (abstract)
14:15
Action without resolution: Private knowledge practices in public healthcare networks (abstract)
13:15-14:45 Session 20E: T28: European AI: Towards Digital Sovereignty and Alternative Approaches to AI Technology
Location: Ravelijn 2231
13:15
Panel Introduction: understanding AI infrastructure in Europe (abstract)
13:20
Open source AI in Europe: how building blocks are falling into place right now (abstract)
13:41
O digital sovereignty, wherefore art thou? (abstract)
14:02
Constituting a sovereign European identity through AI ethics. A critical exploration (abstract)
14:23
Investigating Training Data Transparency in the EU AI Act: a Reconstruction-Based Approach (abstract)
13:15-14:45 Session 20F: T3: Ethics and Technology in Practice: Workshops
Location: Ravelijn 2237
13:15
To Prompt or not to Prompt: A Mini-Workshop on Academia's Relationship with Generative Artificial Intelligence (abstract)
13:45
Narrative Design Cases: Design engineering case studies for technology ethics through practice (abstract)
14:15
When the Heart becomes Technology: A Practice-Oriented Ethical Exploration Using Phenomenology and Public Intuition (abstract)
14:45-15:00Coffee Break